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Recently watched Kung-fu Hustle and Shaolin Soccer! Ha... check em, they are superb!
Is a very bad thing - but comedy like Alan Partridge, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Spaced, Nathan Barley, The Day Today, Brasseye... bring it on!
Recently read and reading 'The Lonely Londoners' by Sam Selvon, 'A Distant Shore' and 'The Nature of Blood' by Caryl Phillips, 'Mao's Last Dancer' by Li Cunxin, 'Uncommon Sense' by John Peck & Charlie Strohmer, 'The Wounded Healer' by Henri Nouwen, 'Human Givens' by Joe Griffin & Ivan Tyrrell